When you rehydrate them, any remaining bits of nature fall to the bottom of your soaking liquid. When using your soaking liquid in your dish, leave the last few tablespoons in the bowl. When you dry a morel you concentrate the flavour, think of raw fresh nuts versus roasted nuts. The flavours are quite different. When dried in the sun, the morel absorbs additional vitamin D, like the human skin, and most of us could use a little more of that.
Dry morels can be enjoyed all year long. Time and time again, when eaten fresh and dried with our fellow harvesters out in the bush, dried is the clear winner. Drier and older better? We think so, but decide for yourselves. Drying morels is a bit of an art. The components are time, air flow, and heat. If you are lucky, it is warm and sunny enough that you can let the sun do most of the work.
Just lay the morels on screens, with plenty of airflow, and rotate them occasionally. We let the sun work first and we finish with wood heat in a portable commercial drier. The product has a lovely wood aroma and flavour, and we can do a large batches that meet food safety standards. Be careful about drying too hot or too fast. With experience, you learn to adjust the heat, airflow, and drying times to what each batch of mushroom requires. While drying morels is a bit of an art, reconstituting or rehydrating morels is so easy a 3 year old could do it as long as the mushrooms were dried properly to begin with.
Add some water from the tap and wait a few minutes. Pinch them every now and then and when they are plump they are ready to use. Morels, like most mushrooms and most delicacies, are best prepared simply so you can really savour them. Some purists would scoff over using olive oil or even salt! It depends on how discriminating and curious your palette is. When cooking dried morels, add some of your soaking water back into your pan and reduce.
We advocate for cooking low and slow until their is a nice colour for the best flavour extraction. Some prefer fried, breaded, stuffed… really the possibilities are endless! You do have to cook them though. If it is your first time, be moderate. Lip smacking, plate licking good! Every fall I add these to my basket for an indulgent meal. Always top notch, and now I add them to my loved ones stockings at Christmas! Perfection Delicious morels, great product, well packaged, excellent service!
The Morel is certainly one of Nature's finest edible offerings. It's a true pleasure to have morels in your life, whether it be in the forest or the kitchen. If you enjoyed this post you might also like:. Close menu. About Us. Contact Us. Find Us. Morel Mushrooms.
What are Morels? What do Morels Look Like? Kepler says morel mushroom hunting is extremely popular. Morel mushrooms only grow for a short time each spring. A few weeks ago, Kristi Jones went hunting with her sons and nephew for the first time without her father.
They had been hunting for nearly an hour and almost given up. She says she found eight or nine other morels. It contains lots more good info on how and when to find morel spots. This hobby takes great patience, so check these places slowly.
Start at the base of that tree or in the middle of that burn site, and slooooowly make your way around the area in a widening circle. Once you've had some success and find a few morels note my complete confidence in you! Since you will be eating these mushrooms, you want to minimize the amount of dirt you pick. Here are some brief picking guidelines:. It may take a few seasons of informed trying to find your first morel.
Don't give up! The biggest safety issue is proper mushroom identification. There are poisonous morel look-alikes called false morels , which can make you very sick depending on where you live.
Educate yourself on morel mushroom identification and show your first finds to someone more experienced. If you're a novice or need a refresher see this page. Besides safety concerns for you, what about concerns for the mushrooms and the organism that spawns them? There is an ethical issue raised by morel mushroom hunting: how many is too many in terms of picking?
If we pick all the mushrooms in a given area, is that detrimental to the organism? I've heard some educated positions for both sides of this argument. The truth is nobody knows. It's impossible to predict mushroom reproductive rates and picking impact with all the variables involved. In my opinion, it seems obvious that too much picking can be harmful. Without mature mushrooms around to drop their spores, reproduction is stunted.
That means fewer mushrooms in the future. Open the Mi-morels map ». Browsers that can not handle javascript will not be able to access some features of this site. Some functions of this site are disabled for browsers blocking jQuery. Close Search Box. Official Website of Michigan. Splash Morel Mushroom Hunting May is morel month in Michigan, but the actual fruiting period is from late April until mid-June, depending on the location and species.
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